Ticket #371 (closed enhancement: fixed)
Graphical Installer should suggest use of athena username.
| Reported by: | afarrell | Owned by: | xavid |
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| Priority: | low | Milestone: | The Distant Future |
| Component: | livecd | Keywords: | |
| Cc: | Fixed in version: | ||
| Upstream bug: |
Description
Desired behaviour: during installation, when the user is asked for a username, he/she should be suggested to use his/her athena username.
Actual behaviour: the user is simply asked for a username.
To Reproduce: Install Debathena via the graphical installer.
This would simply make things simpler for using ssh, renewing tickets. It would prevent the user from having to know most of http://debathena.mit.edu/customizing.
additional shinyness: if the user's athena username is known, that should be filled in as the default.
Change History
comment:1 Changed 14 years ago by geofft
- Component changed from installer to livecd
- Milestone IAP 2010 deleted
comment:2 Changed 14 years ago by jdreed
While I can see this being desirable for -standard (and possibly -login), I don't like the idea of encouraging this for -workstation installs without explaining the implications to the user (i.e. that they might have to run fix-local-account, etc).
comment:3 Changed 14 years ago by xavid
- Owner set to xavid
- Status changed from new to accepted
I'm assuming we'd keep the current behavior of the -workstation Live CD install (not creating a local user but setting a root password).
comment:4 Changed 14 years ago by xavid
- Status changed from accepted to proposed
Fixed in 2029a15 (of debathena-live.git), for debathena-standard installs only. I don't think filling in the username if they happen to have tickets or something is worth the trouble, so I didn't do that.
